In news that shows the true hazards of always-on internet connections, MX Logic reports that 56% of all spam was sent from zombie computers in July; the third straight month that the majority of spam has originated with zombies. In June, the number was a whopping 62%. Zombies are PCs infected with a Trojan horse that sends spam from an unwitting user's personal account.
Zombies still sending most spam
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. Surely the real problem is mail servers with open relays that let the zombies use them to send emails in the first place.
Zombies are bad, but irresponsible admins are worse.
Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by CodingMonkey
1. I believe "spam that pollutes the blogosphere" should be referred to as "SMOG".......
Jim Parham ~ Yuba City, CA
stockmaverick@gmail.com
Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Jim Parham